. >> right now, i'm reading the biography of dwight eisenhower. everyone new of his affair. he talked of divorcing his wife. they said if you do that, you will be fired. if you don't divorce your wife, we will keep it quiet. the president could have refused petraeus' resignation. it seems to me it's like saying new yorkers are threatened by a giant tsunami and the risk of great white sharks. one is so colossal an event. >> you are talking technology. >> technology. every humiliating privacy story. remember the woman who wrote an intimate love letter to a man she met and he forwarded it to 87 of his friends? i don't know where she lives now, probably new zealand. the lives of the younger people we know, none of the things that ruined their lives have anything to do with government. it's the technological possibility. >> what do you say to general john allen? at a certain point, allen's e-mails seem to be friendly and flirtatious. what we know, the woman gets swept up for reasons that are not clear to myself and other reporters, sent to the pentagon for an investigation becaus